informal

a hard-boiled person behaves as if they have no emotions.

Bogart plays the hard-boiled detective that women find irresistibly attractive. (always before noun)

• no strings
• no strings attached
• No such luck!
• no such luck
• No sweat!
• no sweat
• nosy parker
• not a bit
• not about to
• not a chance
• not a dry eye
• not a dry eye in the house
• not a ghost of a chance
• not a hair out of place
• not all it is cracked up to be
• not all there
• not a pretty sight
• not a red cent
• not bad
• not bat an eye
• not bat an eyelash
• not bat an eyelid
• not be a barrel of laughs
• not be a bundle of laughs
• not be a happy camper